We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.